Poor Mrs Manley, the author, is very ill of a dropsy and sore leg ; the printer tells me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort; and a great deal of good sense and invention... The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... - Página 49por Jonathan Swift - 1813Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 páginas
...to make use of the author. He described Mrs. Manley to Stella as having " very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ; " although Steele, after she had attacked him, professed to find her " a bubble to his mind." She... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 páginas
...to make use of the author. He described Mrs. Manley to Stella as having " very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ;" although Steele, after she had attacked him, professed to find her " a bubble to his mind." She... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 páginas
...to make use of the author. He described Mrs. Manley to Stella as having " very generous principles for one of her sort, ' and a great deal of good sense and invention ; " although Steele, after she had attacked him, professed to find her " a bubble to his mind." She... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 páginas
...to make use of the author. He described Mrs. Manley to Stella as having " very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ; " although Steele, after she had attacked him, professed to find her " a bubble to his mind." She... | |
| Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - 462 páginas
...to make use of the author. He described Mrs. Manley to Stella as having " very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ; " although Steele, after she had attacked him, professed to find her " a bubble to his mind." She... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1893 - 462 páginas
...dropsy and a sore leg. Swift wrote : ' I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention ; she is about forty, тегу homely, and very fat ' (Journal to Stella, 28 Jan. 1711-12). In May 1713 Steele had an angry... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 420 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her : she has very generous principles for one of her sort ; and a great deal of good sense...invention : she is about forty, very homely, and very fat" — Journal, January 28, 17H. Other more respectable literary aspirants found a helping hand from Swift.... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 428 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her : she has very generous principles for one of her sort; and a great deal of good sense...: she is about forty, very homely, and very fat." — Journal, January 28, 17H. Other more respectable literary aspirants found a helping hand from Swift.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 550 páginas
...me he is afraid she cannot live long. I am heartily sorry for her ; she has very generous principles for one of her sort; and a great deal of good sense...the Duke of Ormond, and the Prolocutor, about what Lord-Treasurer spoke to me yesterday ; I know not what will be the issue. There is but a slender majority... | |
| MARGARET B WRIGHT - 1897 - 188 páginas
...foreign here. " I am heartily sorry for her," Swift wrote to Stella; " she has generous principles for one of her sort, and a great deal of good sense and invention; she is about forty, homely, and very fat." Abraham Cowley was here not on business of the Muses, but on business of the... | |
| |